Myth Gods Tech - Omnibus Edition: Science Fiction Meets Greek Mythology In The God Complex Universe by George Saoulidis Page B

domain,
tall dark and nerdy. Besides, that was a good excuse you came up
with, I might use that next time.”
    He
grunted.
    I
shushed him and looked at my watch, calculating
intervals.
    “ We meet up at midnight at the park, OK? I’ll just be done
with the latest attack, so we can skedaddle to Gerakas right away.
Be on time,” I said firmly.
    “ Will you be OK till then,” Deppy asked worried.
    “ Shuuure,” I said so I could believe
it myself. “Six measly attempts to choke me to death till then.
I’ll be fine.”

Chapter
40
     
    I slid the
side-door of the van open and jumped inside.
    My eyes
jumped from Billy to Deppy and back again. “Am I interrupting
something?”
    “ Nope,” Billy said at the same time as Deppy’s “No, it’s
fine,” anxious laugh.
    I was in
no mood for their stupid skata. I had spent all day lying to my
parents, making excuses, running off to the little forest, getting
chased by that sadistic Erinyes, going back, lying some more,
resting for a few minutes, making more excuses, running again. It
had taken its toll on me.
    Physically, I was surprised to see that it was getting easier
to handle as time went by. Emotionally, it was becoming too much to
bear.
    I stared
at them both inside the dimly lit van, parked at the side of the
little forest in the middle of the night. Billy was flushed and was
trying to discreetly pull his pant leg in a hopeless attempt to
hide his boner. Deppy was breathing heavily and her lips were shiny
wet.
    My eyes
widened.
    I threw
my arms in the air. “Finally, you two!”
    I went
around to the passenger seat and put my seatbelt on, mumbling, “If
I had a euro for every time I tried to get you two vlaka together,
I’d be a gazillionaire.”
    I looked
back through the hole. They were just staring at me,
speechless.
    “ We ain’t got all night! Come on, I’ll let you get back to it
after we infiltrate a secure tech corporation.”
     
     
    We
parked in the back of Hermes Information Technology. Prodromos had
already located a blind spot in the security cameras. To my
surprise, Billy was straining and sweating over driving the big van
but he was managing it. The traffic had been low, but it had been
still there.
    I wore
dark loose clothes, but they attenuated my body lines nicely. Just
cause you are a cat-burglar doesn’t mean you shouldn’t look good
doing it.
    Deppy
gave me a headband with LEDs on it, and helped me put it
on.
    “ What’s this? Doesn’t making me a beacon defeat the purpose of
a stealthy approach?”
    She made
sure my hair was neat and the headband comfy, and then tested the
lights. “Not in this day and age. These LEDs shine some visible
light, but they are extremely bright in the infrared spectrum. It
blinds the cameras, you are still there, but it’s like you have a
flash constantly blowing the image over your head. Oh, here,” she
said and turned on her phone’s camera on me. A superbright flare
that was leaving blue vertical streaks was over my face, moving as
I did. There was no way to see what I looked like.
    Good.
    I looked
around the van and moved my head to see how much it would light the
place. It wasn’t much, a person could see you of course, but if you
were a few meters around the corner it wasn’t enough to give you
away. “Huh. Nice. Did Prodromos make this?”
    Deppy
smiled a bit. “No, it was me. Her plan was to spoof the video feed.
My plan is to leave everything running and trip no alarms. Our
entry will get recorded, but if nobody gets suspicious and checks
manually, they won’t even know we were there.”
    I
squinted at her. “You are taking to this life of industrial
espionage like a duck to water.”
    She
exhaled, “It’s all up there on the internet, if you look for
it.”
    I
checked my watch.
    “ Let’s do this or die trying,” I said.
    “ Let’s try not to die at all,” they both said in
tandem.

Chapter
41
     
    I felt damn silly, going in.
    Crouching low, in my cat-burglar suit, dim lights